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This is a list of the heads of state of South Africa from the foundation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 to the present day. From 1910 to 1961 the head of state under the South Africa Act 1909 was the Monarch, who was the same person as the Monarch of the United Kingdom and of the other Dominions / Commonwealth realms.
Category. v. t. e. Francis Kwame Nkrumah (21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972) was a Ghanaian politician, political theorist, and revolutionary. He served as Prime Minister of the Gold Coast from 1952 until 1957, when it gained independence from Britain. [1] He was then the first Prime Minister and then the President of Ghana, from 1957 until 1966.
Presidents of Gabon (1 C, 8 P) Presidents of Ghana (2 C, 11 P) Presidents of Guinea (1 C, 11 P) Presidents of Ivory Coast (9 P) Presidents of Kenya (3 C, 7 P) Presidents of Liberia (2 C, 33 P) Presidents of Madagascar (2 C, 13 P) Presidents of Mali (1 C, 2 P) Presidents of Mozambique (2 C, 6 P)
The president of South Africa is the head of state and head of government of the Republic of South Africa. The president directs the executive branch of the government and is the commander-in-chief of the South African National Defence Force. Between 1961 and 1994, the office of head of state was the state presidency.
Djotodia was the leader of the Séléka rebel coalition in the ongoing civil war. —. Michel Djotodia (born 1949)Head of State of the Transition. 18 August 2013. 10 January 2014 [L] —. Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet (born 1972)Acting Head of State of the Transition.
Date of death. Lifespan. 1. Charles Robberts Swart. 5 December 1894. 31 May 1961. (1961-05-31) 66 years, 177 days.
Mandela during his 1994 visit to the US Recorded on 4 October 1994. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (/ mænˈdɛlə / man-DEH-lə; [ 1 ]Xhosa: [xolíɬaɬa mandɛ̂ːla]; born Rolihlahla Mandela; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and politician who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to ...
Olusegun Obasanjo was the first vice president (as Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters) to become head of state when Murtala Muhammed was killed during the 1976 Nigerian coup d'état attempt, [10] while Goodluck Jonathan was the first democratic vice president to become head of state when Umaru Musa Yar'Adua died of Illness on 5 May 2010. [11]